Michael Perrotta

Under the Sycamores Michael Perrotta

UNDER THE SYCAMORES begins with Emilia remembering a time when she was completely free.

This romance novel flows fast and inexorably like the calm waters of a river - but only on its surface.


The author narrates marvelously, the apparent explosions of conflicting feelings from a woman (Emilia) trying to be fulfilled with her own life - then finding herself in need of love, fortuitously meets Nicholas - the destiny is the heartfelt love story of two "twin-souls" who share forbidden love and ultimately must find a way to life's own course. Emilia takes the steps down to the bottom of her heart, of her life and of all the lost passions... to find the courage to be true to herself.


The book addresses important themes about how we all come to the fork in the road and wonder if we chose the right path. Or as the book so eloquently says. "Not who you are. What you've become. There's a difference. Who you are - belongs with me!"

"A novel is always like a big "painting" of life. If Michael Perrotta were a painter, UNDER THE SYCAMORES would be a splendid neoclassical painting. One who knows all the thousand different hues of a woman's soul, is carefully offering every detail with love to those who worship nature with all their forms. Where fantasy ends and autobiographical aspects begin - the author doesn't reveal to us. But it's easy for the reader to acknowledge the great capacity Michael has in his welding them to perfection in this novel." - Dott. Giuseppe Sardini (Author)

"... I love hearing what is in your heart, Emilia... Like a hungry lioness ripping the flesh off the cracked bones of her prey to feed her cub... You have so much courage... Much more than me."